Over three centuries of centuries publishing three scholarly Over Languages and Linguistics catalog 2020/2021 Follow us on Facebook and Twitter facebook.com/BrillLanguage twitter.com/Brill_Language youtube.com/BrillPublishing © Copyright 2021 Brill. All rights reserved. LANGUAGES LINGUISTICS AND Passives Cross- Ten lectures on field The Essence of Linguistically semantics and semantic Linguistic Analysis Theoretical and typology An Integrated Approach Experimental Approaches Jürgen Bohnemeyer, R.M.W. Dixon, University at Buffalo Edited by James Cook University Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Cyprus, Akemi Matsuya, Takachiho University, and Eva-Maria Remberger, University of Vienna The volume Passives Cross- These lectures provide one of the In The Essence of Linguistic 3 Linguistically provides analyses first comprehensive introduc- Analysis by R. M. W. Dixon re- of passive constructions across tions to semantic typology, the lates together, in a clear and suc- RECENT PUBLICATIONS different languages and popula- study of crosslinguistic varia- cinct manner, individual gram- tions from the interface perspec- tion in how languages represent matical categories, showing their tives between syntax, semantics, reality. In addition, they survey dependencies and locating each and pragmatics. In addition to research methods for field se- in its place within the overall the theoretical contributions, mantics, the study of linguistic tapestry of a language. some experimental works are meaning under fieldwork condi- presented, which explore pas- tions. sives from psycholinguistic per- spectives. READERSHIP: All interested in READERSHIP: These lectures are READERSHIP: Advanced under- modern approaches to passive directed at students and scholars graduate and graduate students constructions in both theo- in linguistics and neighboring plus faculty in Linguistics and retical and empirical detail from disciplines with an interest in Anthropological Linguistics. different languages as well as linguistic meaning especially psycholinguistic applications to as it intersects with culture and language processing, acquisition, nonverbal cognition. and pathology. February 2021 February 2021 March 2021 Hardback Hardback (xii, 237 pp.) Paperback ISBN 9789004428232 ISBN 9789004362611 ISBN 9789004446502 Price € 155 / US$ 186 Price € 99 / US$ 119 Price € 39 / US$ 49 E-ISBN 9789004433427 E-ISBN 9789004362628 E-ISBN 9789004446519 E-Price € 145 / US$ 174 E-Price € 99 / US$ 119 E-Price € 39 / US$ 49 Empirical Approaches to Distinguished Lectures in Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics Linguistic Theory, 17 Cognitive Linguistics, 14 LANGUAGES LINGUISTICS AND The Western Karaim Torah A Critical Edition of a Manuscript from 1720 Michał Németh, Jagiellonian University in Kraków 4 This volume offers the critical edition and an description of the manuscript’s language and an English translation of the oldest translation of the outline of the history of Western Karaim transla- RECENT PUBLICATIONS Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by tions of the Torah to better understand the its Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript philological and historical background. was compared against several other Karaim trans- lations of the Torah as well as with the standard text of the Hebrew Bible. The author provides a READERSHIP: All interested in the history of Turkic (especially Kipchak-Turkic) languages and anyone con- cerned with the Karaim translation techniques of Hebrew religious texts. March 2021 Hardback ISBN 9789004426580 Price € 289 / US$ 347 E-ISBN 9789004447370 E-Price OPEN ACCESS Languages of Asia, 24 LANGUAGES LINGUISTICS AND Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek A Constructional Approach Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia In Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek:.A focused on properties of the latter. By taking a con- 5 Constructional Approach Silvia Luraghi offers a structional approach, the author shows that con- comprehensive account of construction variation struction variation also brings about differences in RECENT PUBLICATIONS with two-place verbs belonging to different sub- the conceptualization of the subject/experiencer domains of experience (including bodily sensation, by pointing to different degrees of control and perception, cognition, emotion and volitionality) awareness. Variation is then shown to reflect the in the Homeric language. Traditionally, variation is embodied construal of experience along with the ascribed to the independent meaning of cases that social dimension of emotions. mark the second argument, and explanations have READERSHIP: All interested in Ancient Greek language and linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, lan- guage typology, semantics, and in the relation between language and cognition. December 2020 Hardback ISBN 9789004442481 Price € 144 / US$ 173 E-ISBN 9789004442528 E-Price € 144 / US$ 173 Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 27 LANGUAGES LINGUISTICS AND Multilingualism and A Conversational The Dutch Language the Role of Sibling Order Analysis of Acholi in Japan (1600-1900) Second-Generation Latino Structure and Socio- A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Children in the U.S. Pragmatics of a Nilotic Study of Dutch as a Contact Benjamin Kinsella, Language of Uganda Language in Tokugawa independent scholar Maren Rüsch, and Meiji Japan University of Cologne Christopher Joby, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland 6 In this volume, Benjamin This volume elucidates various In The Dutch Language in Japan Kinsella offers a meticulous ac- interaction strategies for the (1600-1900) Christopher Joby of- RECENT PUBLICATIONS count of six Mexican families in Nilotic language Acholi. fers the first book-length account New Jersey, identifying how birth of the knowledge and use of the order influences the different Based on detailed examples, Dutch language in Tokugawa and dimensions of heritage language Maren Rüsch links the structural early Meiji Japan, which had a maintenance. organization of Acholi conversa- profound effect on Japan’s lan- tions to cultural features such as guage, society and culture. politeness, language socializa- tion and narrations. READERSHIP: Experienced re- READERSHIP: All interested in the READERSHIP: All those interested searchers, graduate students, linguistic areas of pragmatics, in the history of the Dutch lan- educators, policy makers, and sociolinguistics, anthropological guage, the linguistic, intellectual even bilingual parents with an linguistics, gesture studies and and cultural history of Japan and interest in heritage language cognitive linguistics, as well as anyone concerned with language maintenance, language policy, readers concerned with Northern contact theory. and language socialization pat- Uganda, its culture, or Nilotic terns in the family. languages. December 2020 September 2020 November 2020 Hardback Hardback (xviii, 357 pp.) Hardback ISBN 9789004439108 ISBN 9789004437586 ISBN 9789004436442 Price € 110 / US$ 129 Price € 144 / US$ 174 Price € 169 / US$ 199 E-ISBN 9789004439115 E-ISBN 9789004437593 E-ISBN 9789004438651 E-Price € 110 / US$ 129 E-Price € 144 / US$ 174 E-Price € 169 / US$ 199 Brill’s Studies in Language, Brill’s Studies in Language, Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 26 Cognition and Culture, 25 Cognition and Culture, 24 LANGUAGES LINGUISTICS AND Anatolian Verbal The History of Man’yōshū (Book 16) Stem Formation the Reinforced A New English Translation Luwian, Lycian and Lydian Demonstrative Containing the Original David Sasseville, in Nordic Text, Kana Transliteration, Philipps-University Marburg Regional Variation Romanization, Glossing and Reconstruction and Commentary Alexander Vovin, Eric T. Lander, EHESS/CRLAO, Paris, France Stockholm University In Anatolian Verbal Stem In this book Eric T. Lander Book sixteen of the Man’yōshū 7 Formation, David Sasseville comprehensively treats the mor- (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) provides a full analysis of the phological development of the continues Alexander Vovin’s new RECENT PUBLICATIONS Luwian, Lycian and Lydian pronoun ‘this’ in early Nordic. English translation of this 20-vol- verbal stem classes and their pre- The book features an exhaustive ume work originally compiled history in relation to Hittite. study of the runic forms, com- between c.759 and 785 AD. It is parison with West Germanic, the earliest Japanese poetic an- and paradigm reconstructions. thology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. READERSHIP: All scholars and READERSHIP: Professors, re- READERSHIP: All those interested students at any level interested searchers, lecturers, advanced- in Ancient Japanese Literature, in the field of Indo-European level students in Germanic Japanese poetry, History of the Linguistics and Hittitology. historical-comparative linguis- Japanese language, Ancient tics, especially scholars with an Japan, and students of Old interest in Old Norse and runic Japanese. inscriptions. December 2020 December 2020 December 2020 Hardback Hardback Hardback (approx. 200 pp.) ISBN 9789004436282 ISBN 9789004435247 ISBN 9789004439337 Price € 179 / US$ 219 Price € 139 / US$ 167 Price € 140 / US$ 168 E-ISBN 9789004436299 E-ISBN 9789004435254 E-ISBN 9789004440210 E-Price € 179 / US$ 219 E-Price € 139 / US$ 167 E-Price € 140 / US$ 168 Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Brill’s Studies in Historical Man’yōshū, 16 Languages & Linguistics, 21 Linguistics, 13 LANGUAGES LINGUISTICS AND Prekmurje Literary Sinitic Disentangling Bare